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Olympics-Swimming-Men's 200m butterfly semi-final results

Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:19pm EDT
 
 Aug 12 (Reuters) - Olympic swimming men's 200m butterfly
semi-final results in Beijing on Tuesday.
 Semi-final one
 1.  Takeshi Matsuda (Japan)        1 minute 54.02 seconds
 2.  Nikolay Skvortsov (Russia)     1:54.31
 3.  Laszlo Cseh (Hungary)          1:54.35
 4.  Moss Burmester (New Zealand)   1:55.26
 5.  Gil Stovall (United States)    1:55.36
 6.  Dinko Jukic (Austria)          1:55.65
 7.  Sergii Advena (Ukraine)        1:56.64
 8.  Hsu Chi-Chieh (Chinese Taipei) 1:57.48
 Semi-final two
 1.  Michael Phelps (United States) 1:53.70
 2.  Wu Peng (China)                1:54.93
 3.  Kaio Almeida (Brazil)          1:55.21
 4.  Pawel Korzeniowski (Poland)    1:55.35
 5.  Chen Yin (China)               1:55.88
 6.  Michael Rock (Britain)         1:55.90
 7.  Ryuichi Shibata (Japan)        1:56.17
 8.  Ioan Gherghel (Romania)        1:56.57
 (Compiled by Infostrada Sports, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
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